Angur Nahar Monty is the diplomatic correspondent for Bangladesh’s Bhorer Kagoj and a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow at the University of Maryland.

In the last decade, the growth of print and electronic media
and a new generation of journalists have changed the face of the media in Bangladesh.
But there is a long way to go until there is true press freedom. Politicians,
criminals, and businessman exert undue influence, and the industry itself lacks
the professionalism to withstand it.